Earth911 Podcast: Re:Dish CEO Caroline Vanderlip on Creating a Circular Food Service System

Earth911 Podcast: Re:Dish CEO Caroline Vanderlip on Creating a Circular Food Service System

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Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of Re:Dish, joins the dialog to debate making cafeteria, institutional and restaurant meals service sustainable. Re:Dish gives reusable meals service gadgets, amassing, returning them to a dish washing facility every day, and delivering a contemporary provide to its clients, which embody company and faculty cafeterias and hospitals. Re:Dish containers affords a number of #5 plastic (polypropylene) clamshell and spherical meal containers which are rented on a per-use foundation to institutional clients. These containers don’t embody the PFAS used to prevent leakage in lots of compostable meals service merchandise. Customers are supplied with informational guides for diners and branded assortment containers that Re:Dish empties every day.

Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of Re:Dish
Caroline Vanderlip, CEO of Re:Dish, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Re:Dish claims that an organization cafeteria that reuses a mean of 500 containers as a substitute of molded pulp single-user containers each enterprise day for a 12 months can stop 125,000 gadgets from going to a landfill and that it’ll use 67% much less water and produce 77% fewer Scope 3 emissions, these produced from sourcing, making, and delivery the single-use containers. The firm has additionally declared its personal zero-waste aim, which it desires to attain by subsequent 12 months, 2023 — they presently divert 76% of the waste in its services from landfills. You can study extra about Re:Dish at redish.com.